Nursing and jobs

In today’s world we are striving to find the best career to support our families or even to fulfill something inside of us. I have done just this; I have chosen to be a nurse. As jobs are few and far between the medical field looks better and better every day, or so I though. The demand is so high and yet there are new nurse graduates that are unable to find a job. Why are nurses finding it hard to get a job after graduation; this answer is written in every job notification, they want people with experience. Experience is a huge demand and generalizes what the employers want, they want to avoid turnover rates, fill positions that are rapidly dwindling, and need versus demand. Which leads us to the catch 22, how can you gain experience without the opportunity to get the experience?

With nurses in high demand, you would think that new graduates would be able to easily find a job. The idea that is placed in everyone's head, is that there are so many positions that need to be filled we are overworking our current nurses. In certain states, this is not the case. Most nurses have applied everywhere, and when looking at the job notifications they hit a brick wall of words. These words echo on each page, for each add “No New Grads”. The biggest question is why?

The nursing literature reports that the inability to handle the intense working environment, advanced medical terminology, and high patient acuity results in new graduate nurse turnover rates of 35% to 50% within the first year of employment (Halfer and Graf 150).

With a turnover this high, it is no wonder why employers are seeking nurses with experience. How can we expect an employer to put time and effort into a new employee, especially a new nurse, when the shock...

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... to do when they can't get a job because they lack experience, and can't gain experience because they are unable to get a job. There is no way to appropriately answer that question with the recession luring over the new grads head, lack of experience, and decrease in job availability. The only answer available is hope, but hope can only get you so far.

Works Cited

Bhatt, Sanjay. "Business / Technology." The Seattle Times. N.p., 10 Mar. 2012. Web. 22 Nov. 2013. .

Halfer, Diana, and Elaine Graf. "Graduate Nurse Perceptions of The Work Experience." Nursing Economics 24.3 (2006): 150-155. Print.

Krutz, Annalyn. "For nursing jobs, new grads need not apply." CNNMoney. Cable News Network, 14 Jan. 2013. Web. 21 Nov. 2013. .